Zippered Polygon Meshes

I recently worked on zippering together range images to create polygonal
models. This research is a part of the 3D Fax Project that is
headed by Professor Marc Levoy at Stanford University.
Our paper on the subject is Zippered
Polygon Meshes from
Range Images (postscript, 0.95 Mbytes), published in the Siggraph
94 Proceedings. Below are some models built by this method.

This lion was reconstructed from thirteen range scans of a plastic
model. This is work done by Hua Ge, Marc Levoy
and myself to incorporate color into models
reconstructed from range images. You may want to compare
a photograph of the original model against the
reconstructed lion.